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I just don’t think so. The Professionals will be getting tested before the train/play and we don’t have that luxury. An airborne virus that if 1 infected player turns up, can infect up to 30 others. Why take that risk until we can be sure that the risk of spread is removed.

Played a friendly against them on Tuesday. A cracking young side. Credit to the league [emoji108]

This’ll be a great tie

I agree with loads from above. Amateur football is struggling for loads of reasons. Costs are certainly a factor. Firstly the costs of hiring parks etc. I don’t need to detail it but we all know its tough out there. Never mind the fact its a struggle to get the fees in sometimes. I charge £30 a month and yet i’m having to constantly remind players to pay their way. I don’t see the commitment coming through anymore. I see young players cancelling on games for the slightest reasons. The excitement at Rangers and Celtic are impacting teams. This has definitely benefited he Saturday Morning teams. I look at the amount of teams folding at the bottom of leagues now. The minute the going gets tough, we see a lot of players decide to jump ship. I also think that some lower league Junior teams aren’t helping the situation. I’m all for developing players but you’re sending players on who believe they are about to get a fair crack at Junior but actually they’re just 1 of 25/30 amateurs going to the same team and they’re not even getting paid. These clubs are like conveyor belts. They go through 50/60 players a year because as soon as some leave, they bring in more amateurs. I don’t know what the answer is. I don’t think we can stop this decline

You’re right, it is late. The lateness of the departures of our players have caused us to be looking around now. You mentioned Third Lanark were struggling earlier but if you had taken some time to read our posts you’d have seen why. Theres some very good teams in our league. Thanks for your input.

Cheers mate. Stressed out my nut with it all but i’m sure it’ll all be worth it.

Its not the CSAFL that are causing this. We lost 9 players who have moved on to Junior Clubs and very good amateur clubs. Thats just the joy of amateur football. The problem is theres not as much appetite for players to come into a team at this point. I’m certain that we’ll (Third Lanark) be fine. Its going to take me a couple of months but i’m confident we can get the team performing again. We’re just needing to regroup next week at training and having had a decent number of players contact us, have a good look at them all. The downside of playing in such a good league is that weaknesses are exposed and its so unforgiving. We’ve been so lucky to have had a great group of players for so long but things change and we need to evolve

Third Lanark are looking for players to strengthen our squad for the upcoming season in CSAFL Div1A. Had a few players snapped up by Junior Clubs and other decent teams so are in need of strengthening. We train on Tuesdays at Barlia, Thursdays at Nuffield EK and home games are on a Saturday Afternoon at Toryglen. Only position we don’t need is a ‘keeper. Looking for good players to improve us.

Do you work all weeknights?

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Congrats to Mick and all at Colville from all at Third Lanark. Good luck in your new venture [emoji108]

Big games tomorrow in 1B again.....

Blantyre absolutely pumped us. No heart or desire shown from the team. We looked like a team with nothing to play for. The lads at Blantyre did well and were a class act. No boasting/goading or any of that nonsense that sometimes comes with these results. 4 games left for us to end the season with a bit of pride.

The only teams able to get it are Bridgewater, Garrowhill, Blantyre RGM and Third Lanark. We (Third Lanark) are really an outside bet here as it’d take some pretty dramatic results in other games for us to take that spot. Blantyre have the most control, win their games and 2nd spot is theirs. We’ve not played Blantyre yet so I can’t comment on them as a team at all. Its too hard to call a favourite for me at this time. Having played both Bridgewater and Garrowhill, I can see why they’re up there. Its very close.

Cheers. Out white kits will never be the same after that game. Haha.

Compared to where we came from (GGPAFL) the 1st Division is a huge step up. Theres some really good teams in 1B. I don’t think theres any team in the division you can hand 3 goals and expect to take anything from it. In the old league, most of the time if a team scored 3 we just outscored them.

Yep. We (Third Lanark) fucked it yesterday. Literally assisted the 3 goals against us. Didn’t play badly at all. At this level, you struggle to get away with giving away 1 of those never mind 3.

Have Blantyre and Fallin still to play? Thats an important match for the league now.

It was some game indeed. Thought we battled hard against Fallin who are a cracking big team. Gutted to lose it. Thought we started better and up until our goal looked good. After that, Fallin caused us a lot of trouble. Thought it was a soft pen at the end. Haha.

I also look at Blantyre who’ve had some great results. Newtonvale won the division above us last 2 seasons in a row so another decent team. Only 2 teams i’ve never seen are Fallin and Ardencaple. Our main aim is just adapting and improving this year. Teams are much fitter and we’re needing to concentrate for much longer than we’re used to.

I think the great thing about 1b is that theres many good teams. You see teams from lower in table beating teams at top of table with ourselves (Thirds) and BSC picking up what looked like unexpected points looking at the table. Given that the last 2 years we’ve only lost a handful of league games in the GGPFL we knew it was going to be a tough transition. Theres games we played well and lost. A couple of games we’ve been off the ball and took a doing. While its not the ideal position for us, we’re still obviously glad to have made the move. It’ll be very interesting to see how the season ends.

We (Third Lanark) have just moved to the CSAFL and its been a big change for us. Every game has been well contested.

I think i’ve learned now that you can’t keep everyone happy. All you can do is be honest with all your players. If you’ve more than 16 to choose from its impossible to keep them all happy. The guys not chosen will have reasons why they believe they deserve a jersey. So while you can’t keep them happy you can help them understand. If they don’t have faith in your team selection then perhaps they need to move on.